Children stand at the entrance to a room of their house turned into a barn in northwestern Albania, Jan 13. In 1995, their father killed a friend in a drunken rage, sparking a series of retaliatory killings that have left five people dead so far.

Teacher Liljana Luani, center, gives a weekly lesson to children whose family is forced to live in isolation in northwestern Albania, Jan. 18, following a murder conflict.

Village women stand in a queue to get themselves enrolled for the Unique Identification (UID) database system at Merta district in the desert Indian state of Rajasthan on February 22. In a more ambitious version of programmes that have slashed poverty in Brazil and Mexico, the Indian government has begun to use the UID database, known as Aadhaar, to make direct cash transfers to the poor, in an attempt to cut out frauds who siphon billions of dollars from welfare schemes.

A villager goes through the process of eye scanning for Unique Identification (UID) database system at an enrolment centre.

A villager goes through the process of a fingerprint scanner for the Unique Identification (UID) database system.

A general view of an enrolment centre for the Unique Identification (UID) database system is pictured at Merta district in the desert Indian state of Rajasthan.

Ghewar Ram (R), 55, and his wife Champa Devi, 54, display their Unique Identification (UID) cards outside their hut in Rajasthan.

Buddy Dumeyera, the Louisville deputy coroner who runs the indigent burial program, places a flag on 48-year-old Francisco Carmona's casket as students from the St. Joseph of Arimathea Society at Trinity High School prepare to perform their duties on Feb. 6, at Meadow View Cemetery in Louisville, Ky. The students are, from left, Paul Adams, 18, senior, Jeremy Gaines, 16, junior, Nolan Riley, 14, freshman, Greg Atchison, 17, senior, Sean Dageforde, 17, Jake Eddy, 18, senior, school principal Dan Zoeller and social studies teacher Chad Waggoner.

Students read the opening prayer from a program for the indigent burial of 48-year-old Francisco Carmona, who died in January with no family or friends, yet had a service on Feb. 6, at Meadow View Cemetery in Louisville, Ky. Carmona's funeral was the 91st service for the poor in Louisville since Nov. 1.

Workers prepare to bury Francisco Carmona on Feb. 6, as graves await the indigent at Meadow View Cemetery, Louisville's current Potter's Field.

62-year-old Cheng Man Wai lies in the 16 square foot cage that he calls home, in Hong Kong on Jan. 25, 2013.

77-year-old Yeung Ying Biu sits inside his cage home on Jan. 25, 2013.

63-year-old Lee Tat-fong walks in a corridor while her two grandchildren -- Amy, 9, and Steven, 13 -- sit in their 50-square-foot room in Hong Kong on Jan. 25, 2013. Lee, like many poor residents, has applied for public housing but faces years of waiting. Nearly three-quarters of 500 low-income families questioned by Oxfam Hong Kong in a recent survey had been on the list for more than 4 years without being offered a flat.

77-year-old Yeung Ying Biu eats next to his cage on Jan. 25, 2013. The cage homes date from the 1950s, when they catered mostly to single men coming in from mainland China

People reach out for a bag of oranges during a free distribution of fruit and vegetables by Greek farmers outside the Agriculture Ministry in Athens, part of a farmers' protest against high production costs on Feb. 6, 2013.

Athens residents reach out to take fruit and vegetables distributed for free by farmers.

Kekchi Aborigines from Coban protest a day before the Oxlajuj Baktun celebration at the Tikal Mayan ruins in Peten, Guatemala on Dec. 20, 2012.

Indigenous people take part in celebrations marking the end of the Mayan age at Iximche archaeological site in Tecpan municipality, Guatemala, on Dec. 20, 2012. Ceremonies are being held to celebrate the end of the Mayan cycle known as Bak'tun 13 and the start of the new Maya Era on December 21.

A boy plays on a makeshift swing near a slum area of the Akhdam community where he lives in Yemen's western port city of Houdieda on Oct. 14, 2012.

A man from the Akhdam community cooks chicken feet outside his hut in Yemen's western port city of Houdieda on Oct. 16, 2012.

Children from the Akhdam community play in a slum area in Sanaa, Yemen, on Oct. 24.

A boy stands at the door of his family's hut in a slum area of the Akhdam community in Yemen's western port city of Houdieda on Oct. 14, 2012.

Ahlam Salem, 15, moves in an alley in a slum area in Taiz, Yemen on Oct. 11. Ahlam, a member of the Akhdam community, had her legs amputated by surgeons eight years ago to remove malignant tumors.

A woman from the Akhdam community holds her son in a slum area in Yemen's southwestern city of Taiz on Oct. 11.

A 21-year-old heroin addict looks for food among garbage in Camden, N.J., Oct. 11, 2012.

A youth volunteer serves food to the needy at Cathedral Hall in Camden, N.J., Oct. 11. Cathedral Hall serves lunch five days a week to thousands of Camden residents having trouble affording food.

A homeless man panhandles on a street in Camden, N.J., Oct. 11.

Workers in a culinary arts training program prepare meals at the Cathedral Kitchen soup kitchen that serves 300 to 600 meals a day, six days a week, to the needy and hungry in Camden, N.J., Oct. 11. Cathedral Kitchen was founded in 1976 and offers a variety of programs and life services to Camden's poor and disadvantaged.

Homes sit vacant in Camden, N.J., Oct. 11.

John Harris stands next to his family: wife Remedios (who holds Joshua, 3), Jamie, 11, John, 16, and Joyce, 8, at the small space where they live under a bridge in Manila, Philippines on August 21, 2012 . John is a construction worker making 250 pesos ($6) a day. The family live in a small space under a bridge alongside many other impoverished families.

Irish Romes, 19, holds her 2-week-old baby Jay at the place where she lives with her family next to a highway in the slums of Binondo, Manila on August 21, 2012.

A man stands next to the door of his room under a bridge in Manila on August 21, 2012. Families cram into small rooms under a bridge so they can live for free.

A man washes clothes as children look out from the small room under a bridge within which they live on August 22, 2012 in Manila.

A woman holds her daughter in their makeshift shack in the Binondo slums of Manila, which they rent for 1,000 pesos ($24) a month.